Opinion Story #1. Assigned 11/4, due 11/6 - MAJOR

OPINION STORY #1

Today, you will have the rest of the period to write your first opinion piece. We will keep moving next class, but you might have a little time to finish this up on Wednesday. You will complete a brainstorm activity on Wednesday that will help all of us have a great set of options for the second opinion story.

For this one, I am going to give you 8 choices. You must choose one to write about today. That means that I will get multiple stories about the same subject. That is okay. I want this first one to be as easy as possible. Your second opinion story will be unique and no one else will be writing about the same topic. If I like your first opinion story, I may ask you if you would like to publish it online. I will not do this for everyone. Your second opinion story WILL BE PUBLISHED ONLINE.

Make a new Google Doc and title it: Your name and the story title. Once you finish the story, please make sure to create a new subpage on your Google Site called Opinion Story #1, and make it a clickable link there. Make sure to SHARE the document so ANYONE WITH THE LINK can EDIT.

Trigger warning:

Some of these topics might be difficult for you to think about because some of them might trigger specific concerns you have had in your life. These are the types of topics we discuss and sometimes write about in the newspaper program. If you find one of these to be that way for you, please skip it and read the next one. I know it isn't easy to talk about some of these topics, but they are ones that impact high school students in general, and some specifically here at Bowie.

Here are the 8 topics you can choose from:

1. Incentives give students who are doing well in school and with limited absences, a chance to skip a test or two at the end of the semester. Take a stance: incentives are great, I think we should keep them OR incentives aren’t great because of people coming to school sick/mentally drained, I think incentives should be changed or removed.

 

2. Bathrooms and bathroom passes are a big issue at Bowie. Craft an opinion piece that explains the problems you see with bathrooms. You can address things like cleanliness, availability of things like bathroom products (TP, soap, paper towels, etc.), how other students behave in the bathroom (vaping, bullying, fights, etc), and how that impacts you. Make sure you provide solution(s) on what could be done to change this situation.

 

3. The ID requirement is being enforced more rigorously this year. Take a stance, either the new ID policy is just fine and people need to get over the drama OR the new ID policy is a waste of time and hard on students.

 

4. FIT is 26 minutes long and is designed to offer students individualized decisions about which class they need more support in. Take a stance on FIT in general. Is it long enough? Does it do what it is supposed to do? Do you utilize FIT in a way that it helps you? Do you think others think or do the same? Is FIT beneficial for students?

 

5. See something, say something is a district and school initiative to get students to help administrators and teachers create a safer environment for students on campus. Have you ever thought about, or dealt with the internal decision whether to report something to an adult before? Do you worry it might come back to you, and someone will find out OR that turning in a friend is just something you cannot do? Have you ever reported something that you thought was inappropriate to an adult at school, or to a parent at home? For this piece, please take the stance that students should report more of what they see around campus so that school is safer, cleaner, and more fun when people do the right things OR you can argue that the policy is a good one, but that you would have difficulties speaking up, make sure to explain you reasoning well.

 

6. Bowie has a newer cell phone policy called "phone free learning" where teachers are able to place rules on their use in classroom. Take a stance on this policy: the policy is fine and it does make learning easier when you phone is not always accessible OR the policy is absurd and you think it should be changed. Make sure you provide support for your reasoning either way. If you are against the phone policy, make sure to provide a solution to students being off tasks when looking at their phones. You can also explain how phones might be used to facilitate the learning process.

 

7. School threats are becoming more and more common place. Sometimes these threats are part of a massive social media blast that target lots and lots of schools in the same area. Do you worry about coming to school sometimes? Do you wonder what else could be done to keep schools safe from either these types of threats or from some sort of specific incident. Consider what the school does do when these types of threats come in and write a piece that addresses how those specific steps are handled. Is it enough? Should the administration/district/police do more? Make sure you come up with specific examples of why you think they should do more, or that those adults are doing everything they can and you think it is enough. Make sure to offer some solutions on how to stop these threats before they are even made.

 

8. This is a presidential election cycle and later this week we will have a new president. Love them or hate them, either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be the new president when they are sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025. This is your chance to write about the election. You can choose to support either side, but you must explain (FACTUALLY), why you support either candidate. Make sure you write about their policies and how they might impact you, their demeanor (personality), their stance on specific topics, and who YOU would support for president. Make sure to write about the opposing side WITHOUT name calling or rhetoric and focus on how their policies and personality might impact your world.

OPINION STORY FORMAT

1. Start with a good introduction that gives us, in very short fashion, the basics about your topic. Make sure you state your DIRECT opinion on the topic you have chosen. You must take a STANCE on this story. For example if your topic is masks, you can argue that masks should be outlawed, you could argue that masks should be required, you could argue that masks should be worn in some circumstances and not in others. But you must take a side, one way or the other.

2. Write in 1st person if you want. This means you can use the word "I" if you want.

3. There are no quotes needed, BUT you will need facts to base your opinion on. You may need to do a little research so you have good facts - try google as a good starting place. Wikipedia is also a good place to get information, but make sure you verify the facts you find there, sometimes they are not very accurate.

4. State your opinion early and support it fully.

5. Address the other side, this means you need to directly say what the other side might feel about your opinion. Not only do you need to acknowledge their side, you need to refute their opinion, that means you need to prove them wrong somehow.

6. Come up with some solutions to your problem and try to convince the other side that your ideas might work.

7. To close, you can restate your opinion.

So pick your topic, do some research about your topic on google (make sure its facts!! Google and certainly Wikipedia are not always factual!!)

And start writing!!! Don't worry, you can't be wrong, this is your opinion. Know your subject, take a side and stick with it (don't be wishy-washy!!) and go for it.

This piece will need to be about 400 words (350-500) and should be about 12-15 paragraphs long. Pace yourself and make sure you have most of this story done today. Many of you will finish it. Next class I will outline in more detail the format for your second opinion story, but what you have above, works for now. Do the best you can. The best of these will be published on the https://thedispatchonline.net.

Opinion Writing Preview - assigned 10/30, due 11/4 - Minor

Opinion Writing Preview

To get started today, we need to explore a little bit about what an opinion story should look like.

Check out this site: https://makemynewspaper.com/how-to-write-an-opinion-piece-for-a-school-newspaper/

As you read through the site AND watch the videos, please answer the following questions on your Google Site on a new subpage called Opinion Writing Preview:

1. What is the difference between an editorial and a column?

2. List the four types of editorials.

3. What are the five things you will need to do to make sure you write a persuasive and entertaining piece?

4. On your Google Site, please give me a list of five things that you think would be great topics for an opinion piece. Think about what goes on around you each day, something you read in the news or on your social media that you think would engage students. Is there something that has made you upset or angry that you think should be written about? Remember as you come up with these ideas, there should be something that needs to be solved, a dilemma that should be addressed, or something that you think needs to be changed. I will compile these so you have options on your second Opinion piece you will write next week. That story will be published on the thedispatchonline.net.

Then go to this website:

http://www.schoolnewspapersonline.com/clients/client-list/high-schools/

Find the Texas High School section.

Click on any school in Texas (EXCEPT BOWIE) and find their opinion/commentary section.

Pick one opinion story that interests you, read it.

Answer the following in a new blog post titled SNO Online Papers:

For each story answer the following questions:

1. Who wrote the story?

2. What is their story about?

3. What is their direct opinion about that topic? Please quote it directly from the story or do a really good job of paraphrasing.

4. Did they address what the other side might think about their topic?

5. Were they wishy-washy with their opinion? Did they backtrack, or did they say one thing and then somewhere else say something that was almost the opposite? 

6. Did they support their opinion with facts?

7. Are there any quotes in the story?

8. What point of view did they write in (1st, 2nd or 3rd)?

Do this for THREE Texas online newspapers

News Story Selections AND Work Day. Assigned 10/28 - Due 10/30 - Minor

Today you will volunteer for your first News Story to appear in the Dispatch online. You will submit your top-5 choices today during class and I will assign them as you continue to work on the Huntington and Earthquake

These stories will cover a club or organization on campus. I have narrowed down your options to around 30, but the good news is that each of these clubs has either asked for us to cover them, or have been responsive in the past. I hope that each of you gets one of your top-5 picks.

You will do all of the same things you did for the fake "student of the month" story. ONLY this time it is real. You will need to write:

375-500 words

Minimum 3 sources - one sponsor and 2 students involved

LTQT style - with your attributions done correctly!!

NO EDITORIALIZING

You will be required to share your entire process including interview question writing, sourcing, interviews, rough draft and final draft. ALL ON THE SAME GOOGLE DOC.

First, go check out your options (If you are in a club not listed and you want to write about that club, please let me know):

Bowie Clubs for 2024-25

Then go here to put in your top-5 choices:

Top-5 choices

This shared link is editable by ALL OF YOU, so please take your time and only type in the row next to your name. Give me the Club or Organization you would like to write a story about. BE CAREFUL!!

When I assign the story, I will let you know on this link:

News/Club stories assigned

Once you know what your story is, you will go into the Google Sheet above and do the following things:

1. Make a Google Doc, share it so that anyone with the link can EDIT. Copy the link and put it in the appropriate spot on the same line as your name. It should be CLICKABLE.

2. Figure out the Club Sponsors name and type it in the appropriate spot on the same line as your name.

3. Develop a question that you think should guide your writing for this story? This could be informing people about the club, it could be something you learn when you interview the club sponsor, or perhaps it could be about what the club is and what they do in the club. You need to determine this question. You will need to type it in the appropriate spot on the same line as your name.

4. Then you will need to find at least two students to interview. I expect you to type their names in the appropriate spot on the same line as your name.

5. Then it is up to you to get started. You will have one IN-CLASS work day on Oct. 26th to write, conduct interviews, etc. in class, it will be due on Nov. 14th and you will have that day to write as well. But you CANNOT do this in class alone. You will have to do some things outside of class. I will be able to help you along the way. You will have things to turn in on the two in-class workdays and I will make sure you have them in advance. Those will be part of the grade for this assignment.

Once you have made your 5 choices, please work on the Huntington and Earthquake, until I have assigned stories.

Huntington and Earthquake. Assigned 10/23, due 10/28 - Minor

 First - take a moment to fill out this form.

Dispatch Newspaper Poll (Voting)

Huntington and Earthquake

Please make a new Google site subpage called Huntington and Earthquake stories:

Directions – write a 250-word brief using inverted pyramid and in transition-quote structure. You may use this information and make up anything else you need to complete the story.

Janice Jones is 53 years old and lives in Barstow, California, according to California Highway Patrol press liaison Tammy Rye.

Rye said Jones was eating pork chops in the back of her motor home, which was parked on Beach Boulevard near Highway 1, when her dog knocked her 9 mm handgun off a seat. The weapon discharged when it hit the floor, and the bullet passed through Jones; leg and through the side of the vehicle, according to Rye. “It could have been worse,” Rye said. “The bullet hit two inches from the gas tank.”

Jones was shot in the right leg around 10 p.m. Wednesday, Rye said.

Jones was transported to Huntington Beach Hospital via ambulance and later was transported to Irvine Medical Center, Rye said. Jim Washington, a spokesperson for Huntington Beach Hospital, confirmed Jones was treated at the hospital but gave no additional information.

Jones’ dog, a Pomeranian named Tombo, was placed in the care of the Huntington Beach Animal Control officers.

The dog seemed to be malnourished, according to Janet Ngo, one of the animal control officers, and had fresh cigarette burns on its forehead. “It could have done with a little less abuse and a few more of those pork chops,” Ngo said.

Ngo indicated that her office would explore filing animal abuse charges against Jones.

Rye said officers cited Jones for expired plates and the county’s district attorney’s office was considering whether to charge her in relation to the gun accident. Jones doesn’t have a permit for the gun, Rye said.

#2 on the same Google site subpage

Directions - Write a 350-word, inverted-pyramid story based on the following set of facts. Assume that the story is for Tuesday morning’s paper. You may make up any additional information you need to complete the story.

An earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay area Monday morning. The quake struck at 8:12 a.m. PDT

A building housing McHenry’s Auto Supply at 2342 Plum St. partially collapsed, killing two people and injuring six others, according to  Jennifer Vu, a public information officer from the Hayward Fire Department. Names of the dead are being withheld pending notifications of families, Vu said.

Hayward resident Mike Beamer, whose apartment is across the street from McHenry’s, said he felt a rolling motion that lasted for about 30 seconds, with a big jolt coming in the middle. “I was eating my breakfast when the room started rolling. I dove under the table just as I heard an explosion outside and a chunk of cement flew through my kitchen window. That’s when the screaming start across the street.”

Hayward firefighters used ropes to stabilize the auto supply shop, conducting a search of the building and capped a gas line after detecting a gas leak at the site.

The epicenter of the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale, was under the Hayward Hills, according to Penny Gertz, a scientist from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park. Gertz called the quake a “strong one” and said it occurred on the Hayward Fault, which runs under the hills.

"Twenty-one fire personnel, 12 police and five American Red Cross workers responded to the building collapse, with some arriving within four minutes of the quake,"Vu said.

Three of the six people injured were hurt seriously enough to require hospitalization and were transported to Hayward General Hospital, according to Vu. She added the no other serious injuries have been reported in Hayward.

"People as far south as Los Angeles and as far north as Redding felt the quake," Gertz said.

Student of the Month Example story

Monday morning the Bowie administration named its October student of the month. The winner was Erica Jones and she was chosen because of her high GPA and outstanding efforts outside of the classroom, according to the committee that picked her.

"I was so excited to win student of the month," Jones said. "It really meant a lot to me to be singled out for this award, I worked very hard last month in my classes and I volunteered 25 hours for NHS."

Jones maintains a 4.60 GPA and is a member of a number of extra curricular clubs at the school.

"We named Erica the student of the month because not only is she a great student, she gives so much to the community," principal Mark Robinson said.

At the end of last year Jones was nominated and won a leadership role in the National Honors Society.

"Erica was heads and shoulders above the rest of the people who were nominated," NHS sponsor and English teacher Samantha Smith said. "Her position this year is president of the club."

In addition to NHS, Jones is also involved in the Art Club, the Magic the Gathering Club and plays ping pong during lunch with the Ping Pong Club.

"I love to play Magic. I think the logic and deck building is so much fun," Jones said. "Plus when I need a good work out, I go smash around a ping pong ball."

In addition to her high grades and club involvement, Jones volunteers at her church.

"I am a pre-school teacher in bible class," Jones said. "I love to work with the little kids. I want to be a teacher in the future."

Jones has three younger siblings, including her step-brother Ethan King, who is a freshman at Bowie.

"I was so proud of her," King said. "She is an inspiration."

Dispatch Issue #1. Assigned 10/16, due 10/18 - Minor (final grade of the 9 weeks)

  The Dispatch Issue #1

Today we are going to spend the entire period reading the 1st issue of the Dispatch. I will pass out copies of the paper shortly. You will need your own copy. You are welcome to take it home if you would like.

Please read one story from each of the following SIX sections:

1. News or the Politics page

2. Features 

3. Entertainment or Reviews or the Photo Essay (pg 6 or 16)

4. Sports

5. Commentary

6. And you must read either the In-Depth story on page 8-9 (Misinformation) or 7 (E-cigs)

As you read the stories I want you to answer the following questions for EACH story on your Google Site on a new subpage called Dispatch Issue #1:

1. Write a two sentence summary of the story.

2. Answer the following questions for each story:

Who was quoted in the story?

What quote was the strongest in your opinion?

Did the lead paragraph make you want to keep reading?

Was the conclusion a quote or a statement?

3. Now make a new text box on the same subpage (Dispatch Issue #1) and answer the following questions:

Which story made you want to learn more about the topic?

Which story was the best written?

Which story had the best quotes (overall)?

Which story was the most boring of the ones you read?

Which one was the hardest to follow (meaning maybe wasn't written as well)?

4. Then I want you to do a couple of things with the photography. In a new text box, answer the following questions:

A. What is your favorite photo in the entire paper?
A1. Why is this your favorite?

B. What is your least favorite photo in the entire paper?
B1. Why is this your least favorite?

C. If you were a photographer on staff, which event/photo assignment would you have liked to do for this issue? You will need to look through the entire paper and see the topics covered and decide which one you think would have been fun.

D. Overall, how would you rate the photography in this issue (1-10 scale, 1 being terrible, 10 being the best set of photos you have ever seen)? What were the strong points and weak points of the images as a whole?

5. LAST TASK - The newspaper staff just completed a brainstorm activity for the second issue of the year which will come out November 5. I consider my Journalism 1 students part of staff, so I want to hear from you. Please list 3 to 5 story ideas you think would be interesting to read about in the school newspaper. Try to think of things that impact students, or has some sort of local connection. If you propose an idea for something broader than that, please give me some sort of story "angle" that could be "localized" to Bowie. Every story in the school newspaper should have some sort of impact on students at the school.

CE#1.3 and turning in your Student of the Month Story. Assigned 10/11, due 10/11 - CE and MAJOR

On your Google Site, please make a new subpage and title it: Current Events Quiz #1.2. Answer the question below on that page. You are welcome to make multiple text boxes if that is easier, or if you want to work on just one text box, that is great. Whatever is best for you. Please be aware that if you copy and past the questions to your Google Site, it can create some formatting problems. I DO NOT NEED you to include the questions - just the answers.

IF ANY OF THESE LINKS DO NOT WORK, JUST TELL ME THAT IN YOUR ANSWER. I KNOW I AM NOT THERE AND I NEVER KNOW WHAT WILL WORK AND WHAT WON'T WITHOUT BEING THERE WITH YOU. I WILL NOT PENALIZE YOU FOR THOSE QUESTIONS THAT YOU CANNOT ANSWER.

Here is today's!!

1. How many homes were estimated to be without power yesterday after Hurricane Milton roared through the west coast of Florida?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hurricane-milton-weakens-it-marches-across-central-florida-homes-destroyed-2024-10-10/

2. What are two of the multiple tips the Austin Police Department suggested that ACL fans to protect themselves at the event from crime?

https://www.kxan.com/acl/apd-releases-crime-statistics-after-austin-city-limits-weekend-one/

3. Explain what a "level 4" robotaxi, according to the article?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/10/tesla-robotaxi-event-comes-after-years-of-elon-musks-missed-deadlines.html

4. What device would you watch the new short film Submerged?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-debuts-the-first-scripted-film-captured-in-apple-immersive-video/

5. How many people were scheduled to use Florida's Tropicana Field as a staging area for clean-up and first responders but were unable to use the facility when Hurricane Milton tore the roof off?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/us/tropicana-field-roof-hurricane-milton-florida/index.html

Long Response:

Please read the following story and respond to the questions below. Please answer the question fully and always try to answer WHY. This section is the subjective section and I will penalize you if you write one word or short phrases for answers with an open-ended question. 

https://apnews.com/article/childhood-arrivals-immigrants-deportation-protection-96058a643c5e2c5c0fb210f7a0e4483a#

Answer the following questions:

A. Please summarize the article in a few sentences.

B. What does DACA stand for?

C. How many people are part of the group of people in DACA?

D. What is the common nickname for these people?

E. What do you think should happen with these people who are officially not citizens, or even legal residents of the US, but were brought to the country when they were infants or toddlers? Explain your reasoning please.

REMINDER - A single sentence isn't enough. I expect you to expand upon your writing. If you think you have written enough, you haven't, write more. Be sure to answer WHY you think something.

When you are done with your Current Events Quiz #1.3, you need to finish your Student of the month story and get it turned in.

Here is how to turn in your SotM story via Google doc thru your Google Site:

Make sure you wrote your story in your AISD Google Drive.

PLEASE MAKE SURE I CAN EDIT THE DOCUMENT. I need to be able to leave you notes on your story.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SHARE IT PROPERLY SO THAT ANYONE WITH THE LINK CAN EDIT. I need to be able to leave notes on your story. DO NOT EMAIL ME THE LINK, instead when you have those done, make sure the link is a CLICKABLE link on your Google Site on a new subpage called: Student of the Month Story.

Here are some things you should check before you share it:

1. Make sure it is around 350 words. You can be a little under or even a little over, but not by much. I will check this.

2. Do you have 10-12 paragraphs (or more)? You should have at least 10 paragraphs.

3. Did you make it easy to see those paragraphs? Go back and put a space between each paragraph. See my sample below.

4. Did you put direct quotes on their own paragraph? You should have. DO NOT EMBED QUOTES, EVER!!

5. Did you think about inverted pyramid? Is the most important stuff (WHY did your friend win student of the month?) at the top? Are there additional things at the end, that might be interesting to know, but aren't crucial to the story?

6. Did you answer the 5 W's and 1 H?

7. Did you look at the multiple examples of how to format the direct quote properly? Each of them should look just like this:

"Start of the quote goes here, usually 1 sentence," title name said. "The second sentence goes here, if you have one."

Look CAREFULLY at the punctuation marks. Yours should look EXACTLY like mine.

8. Do you have 3 sources? You should have at least 1 quote from each source. Ideally you would have 2 students and 1 adult in each story. For this one, you should have your primary source (your friend in class) and 2 other sources you made up.

9. Here are a few things you probably don't know, but if you have time to fix, you should. 

A. Numbers under 10 are spelled out, numbers over 10 are not.

B. Titles are not capitalized unless they are a proper noun. For example English teacher, the English would be capitalized, but government teacher, the government would not.

C. For dates, we never use the letters th, it would just be March 4.

D. Make sure you check proper nouns. Don't use text-speak. You is you, not u. I is I not i. Use proper English spellings and punctuations. This is still an English-type class.

E. If the google doc puts a colored line under anything on your page, it is telling you that there is a problem. Red lines mean spelling, blue lines generally mean you have broken an English rule. Do not turn in anything with any lines underneath them. Fix those.

F. I should only read the first name and title for any source ONE TIME. Once you introduce them, you should use last names ONLY.

G. High school is two words, and if it is used with the school name, it is a proper noun so it should be capitalized like James Bowie High School.

Student of the Month writing day. Assigned 10/7, due 10/11 - MAJOR

 For the rest of the class you will be working on your Student of the Month story. You will have until Friday to complete this assignment and to write in class. This will be due on Friday, October 11 by the start of class. You will also take a current events quiz that day.

You have interviewed someone in class and you should have your questions and answers already on your Google Doc. You were also already supposed to have your additional two interviews completed, remember we made these up. Those should also be on your Google Doc. A really good way to organize these "different" interviews is to color code them. Here is an example:

On the same Google Doc, either at the top or the bottom - start writing your story. You could label it with DRAFT, or even just write he words STORY. 

For this first effort, I want you to write a straight news lead, meaning you should try to tell me who, what, where, when and why or how in that first paragraph.

This can be really simple, just answer the following questions in the first paragraph:

Who:
What:
Where:
When:
Why:

or
How:

HINT: Make sure you use full names, make sure you do the quotations correctly, make sure you follow the format, and in general each sentence will be its own paragraph.

Here is the formula we will be using to write these "NEWS" stories:

LEAD - 5W's

Direct Quote - which goes with the lede
Statement - factual information about your subject - can be an indirect quote, but should be used sparingly
Direct Quote - which goes with the statement above
Statement - factual information about your subject - can be an indirect quote, but should be used sparingly
Direct Quote - which goes with the statement above
Statement - factual information about your subject - can be an indirect quote, but should be used sparingly
Direct Quote - which goes with the statement above
Etc
Etc

Statements are FACTS. These tell us something new about your subject. You should base these "facts" on a quote you have to go with your story, as they work together. Think about the inverted pyramid. Tell me the most important reasons your person won student of the month first, and slowly add less relevant reasons.

When you do your quote, we also use a very specific style. Please not the construction of that direct quote. Notice the punctuation. The quote structure will be EXACTLY the same every single time. Look at where the quotation marks are. Look at the attribution - it always starts with a title, then a full name and finishes with SAID. Once you introduce someone the first time, you can revert to just using their last name from then on. Finally, if you end up having people with the same last name in your story, I will  go over how to do that next class.

Here is an example of a quote:

"I think Dave was a perfect choice for student of them month," history teacher James Smith said. "He works hard in class and is a leader in JROTC and those really help him be a standout."

Your story needs to be at least 350 words and should be at least 10-12 paragraphs long.

HINT: Simple and concise are the best words to think about when you are writing. Is this simple, like so your little brother who is 12 could read it and understand it. And concise; meaning are the sentences and paragraphs short and to the point. Big words are fine, but use appropriate big words. Let your VERBS shine!!

You will be assigned a club or organization to write about soon, and at that time we will talk a little more about lead writing, specifically we will shift to a "narrative" lead and will add another paragraph between the lead and the first quote. We will cover that later.

CE #1.2 AND SoM workday. Assigned 10/2, due 10/11 - CE AND MAJOR

On your Google Site, please make a new subpage and title it: Current Events Quiz #1.2. Answer the question below on that page. You are welcome to make multiple text boxes if that is easier, or if you want to work on just one text box, that is great. Whatever is best for you. Please be aware that if you copy and past the questions to your Google Site, it can create some formatting problems. I DO NOT NEED you to include the questions - just the answers.

Here is today's!!

1. How many National Guard members and federal aid works are already on site and working across the Southeast in the wake of Hurricane Helene?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/us/hurricane-helene-carolinas-biden.html

2. Who is the Siete CEO and co-founder?

3. How many people have come forward to the authorities with accusations against Sean "Puffy" Combs, according to the article?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/sean-diddy-combs-hit-wave-120-new-sexual-assault-allegations-rcna173474

4. What teams are interested in trading for Devonte Adams?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/davante-adams-trade-rumors-jets-steelers-already-interested-star-wr-also-eyeing-saints/

5. What is the "ring of fire" that might be visible in the coming months?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/science/annular-solar-eclipse-october-time-path/index.html

Long Response:

Please read the following story and respond to the questions below. Please answer the question fully and always try to answer WHY. This section is the subjective section and I will penalize you if you write one word or short phrases for answers with an open-ended question. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0863ry88o

Answer the following questions:

A. Summarize the story above.

B. Who were the two people having the debate and what party are they affiliated with?

C. According to the BBC, who was the "winner"?

D. What did the article say was the main focus of each of the men?

E. Did you or anyone in your family watch the debate? WHO?

F. Do you think, based on what you read, or what you saw, if you watched the debate, that either man impacted the race, or the chances of Donald Trump or Kamala Harris to win the election?

REMINDER - A single sentence isn't enough. I expect you to expand upon your writing. If you think you have written enough, you haven't, write more. Be sure to answer WHY you think something.

In 45 minutes we will start working on your Student of the Month stories together.